Is this behaviour unacceptable?

LegacyUser

I live alone, I worked out strenuously in the mornings, I do my job, commute there and back and when I get home I just want to relax and chill. I'm in bed by 10pm most nights!

Now living alone allows me to wander around the house however I please. If I'm after having a shower I'll leave my clothes in the bedroom and change there for example, nothing strange there.

If I sleep naked in bed and wander downstairs in the middle of the night to get a drink I don't bother putting clothes on. Can people in the front window see me? Very doubtful as I don't switch on the light but I'm aware my curtains aren't drawn.

Same if my blinds are open in my upstairs bedroom and I'm home from a jog. I don't close the blinds, change clothes and open them again. I just change clothes over in the corner by the wardrobe, takes seconds.

I live on a busy road, the footpath is maybe 10 metres away. Now lets be clear, I don't go standing in front of my window flaunting for all to see. That's just wrong, I know it

But I do seem to have an attitude of not giving an damn and I'm not closing blinds every time I get changed and tbh it's an upstairs bedroom so you need to be looking up. There are houses across the road I guess. It's a very wide road.

Am I abnormal here and displaying unacceptable behaviour? Deserving of a knock on the door from the local garda here?

retro:electro

Not at all. It's your house, you can do as you please.

Have someone told you it's a problem or something? You seem quite defensive.

Chocolate fiend

You sort of sound like you would like a knock on the door from the Guards! Of course you are doing nothing wrong, but, why the overthinking?

Penny Tration

I'm finding it very difficult to understand why you'd walk around the house naked, with all of the blinds open? I've a neighbour that does that and it always strikes me as pathetic attention seeking.

Not saying that's why you do it, to clarify. Do what you like in your home, but you should allow passers by the courtesy of not seeing you strut around naked if they happen to glance a certain way.

Merkin

What exactly is the personal issue here?

It's your home, what you are doing is perfectly normal. If you were waving your tackle out your window at the neighbourhood children then that would not be normal.

Your username suggests this isn't a problem for you either so what is the issue or are you just conducting a survey on what other people do?

blatantrereg

People sometimes get charged with flashing in the USA for this sort of thing.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/04/07/va-man-acquitted-flashing-passers-home/

MrWalsh

Why dont you get net curtains so you still have plenty of light but privacy too.

Jenny Thalia

Jenny Thalia wrote: »

I'm finding it very difficult to understand why you'd walk around the house naked, with all of the blinds open? I've a neighbour that does that and it always strikes me as pathetic attention seeking.

Not saying that's why you do it, to clarify. Do what you like in your home, but you should allow passers by the courtesy of not seeing you strut around naked if they happen to glance a certain way.

Since when is it pathetic attention seeking to like to walk around naked? I rarely close the curtains in my room if I am getting changed, returning from the shower, or numerous other things, mainly because I prefer it when they're open. There's little chance of anyone seeing me, unless they're looking specifically for it, but I most certainly do it because I like the attention, it's because I see no point in not. It's my house, my room, why can't I?

Penny Tration

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Since when is it pathetic attention seeking to like to walk around naked? I rarely close the curtains in my room if I am getting changed, returning from the shower, or numerous other things, mainly because I prefer it when they're open. There's little chance of anyone seeing me, unless they're looking specifically for it, but I most certainly do it because I like the attention, it's because I see no point in not. It's my house, my room, why can't I?

I stated that I'm not assuming that is the case for the OP, but I believe it is for my neighbour, because why else would he stand at the window giving a full frontal to anyone walking by?

Either way, I've given my opinion. I think it's odd to potter about naked when people walking by could see it. That's my opinion. You have yours

captainfrost

I do not see any need for approval, i believe everybody practice this. But if you still worried then get curtains simple.

beks101

When I lived on my own I did a whole rake of bizarre and daft and "THERE'S NOONE HERE BUT ME!" things that I'm sure others would think were mental. Including nakedness out of the shower, pottering about in my underwear, sure why not, I wasn't disturbing anyone.

You're grand.

What is weird though is the overthinking on this. Did someone catch you naked or pass some comment?

Augme

Jenny Thalia wrote: »

Either way, I've given my opinion. I think it's odd to potter about naked when people walking by could see it. That's my opinion. You have yours

I find it odder that people would purposely look into someone else's window. That's pretty creepy behaviour. It's not like it can happen accidentally either. All someone has to do is look straight ahead to avoid doing that.

MrWalsh

Augme wrote: »

I find it odder that people would purposely look into someone else's window. That's pretty creepy behaviour. It's not like it can happen accidentally either. All someone has to do is look straight ahead to avoid doing that.

Christ, I better stop admiring window frames!

retro:electro

Sometimes I do catch myself looking into someone's window as I'm passing, it usually happens if I can see what's on the tv or if something just catches my attention suddenly. If I ever happened to see someone in the nip I would immediately divert my gaze elsewhere and hope to god that they didn't catch me looking and think I was perving.
I would feel the responsibly for feeling mortified would lie with me more so than them, it's their house they can walk around in the nip if they want.
Op stop looking for an issue where there is none.

orthsquel

I don't see anything wrong with the behaviour in your own house.... having said that, reading between the lines perhaps if it was in someone else's house or someone else was there that otherwise wouldn't be familiar with your behaviour, like a friend, or a relative(parent or sibling for example) or someone else I could understand where questioning if the behaviour is acceptable would come in.